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While I'm glad that Maisy is recovering well, it is not clear that she understands anything about the risks of cycling or the alleged benefits of cycle helmets, and it is likely that she is merely repeating the propaganda that is used to hoodwink the public. She is of course, only ten years old, but it is disappointing that quite so many adults have swallowed the helmet lies without bothering to check the simplest facts.
Nowhere with a helmet law or massive rise in helmet wearing after propaganda campaigns can show any reduction in risk to cyclists, and the biggest ever research project showed a small but significant increase in risk with helmet wearing. Almost nobody in Denmark or Holland wears a helmet, but cycling there is much safer than in countries where there is a helmet law or the majority of cyclists wear helmets. Cycling is about as dangerous, or safe, as walking, but the propaganda always represents cycling as being incredibly dangerous.
Regular cyclists live longer and are fitter, healthier and slimmer than the general public, so the risks of cycling are negative and it is more dangerous not to ride a bike than to ride one. Helmet propaganda and calls for a helmet law have two effects: a reduction in the number of cyclists and obscene profits for the helmet manufacturers, there is no safety benefit. Because cycling confers such huge health benefits, and the people deterred from cycling by the propaganda lose those benefits, the effects of such propaganda are very large and very negative. It is probably not a coincidence that the countries with helmet laws are the most obese on earth.
Check out cyclehelmets.org for a few facts rather than propaganda.